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This article was so poorly conceived I had to write something up. Franchuk somehow forgets that the number of possessions a player uses affects the number of times he is fouled. A far better metric is Free Throw Rate, or the Free Throws Made per Field Goal Attempt. Using this metric, Jimmer is far far from the top. Throwing out a couple numbers.

Style of play has a big impact here. A jump shooter just doesn't get fouled as much as a driver. I think we can all agree though that Jimmer does plenty of driving. Opponents are so concerned about his threes coming off a pick that he has gotten a number of fouls on jumpers also.

Also valuable is comparison to previous years.

07-08 20.0
08-09 35.7
09-10 51.1
10-11 37.7

He is being called as if he stopped driving this year and no one plays defense on him any more. Obviously this is not the case.